Cybersecurity Financial Industry Case Study
Midwest Bank Increases Protection to Gain Greater Visibility and Control
A locally owned, midwestern bank provides both personal and business banking services through its 7 locations. In operation since 1885, the bank has a vested interest in keeping both its organization and its members safe from the increasing volume of cyber threats. While faced with the same cybersecurity issues and regulatory compliance issues as larger financial institutions, the bank must protect its network and members while ensuring auditing and compliance with fewer resources— specifically, a 3-person IT team.
Upon learning about Threater, the bank CEO suggested the IT team deploy Threater in front of the existing firewall, as part of an additional layer of protection for their defense-in-depth security strategy. With Threater, he felt that he would be able to leverage Threater’s 30M+ out-of-box threat indicators to prevent known bad actors from targeting them by stopping them before they hit the bank’s firewall.
| Challenge | Solution | Results |
|---|---|---|
| Protect the bank and its customers from the massive amounts of threats that are unique to the financial industry by better utilizing FS-ISAC threat feeds | The bank deployed Threater at its perimeter to block attacks from up to 150M malicious IPs and domains (including automated threat feeds such as FS-ISAC) in real-time with no latency. | Increased protection from cyber threats, including third-party risks, through the filtering of TI indicators, country IPs, and hte organizations IPs. |
| Increase productivity and efficiency of on-site IT staff | Greater visibility and control of the bank’s security posture as well as integration with current security stack. | |
| Expand security capabilities without increasing management overhead or complexity | Greater TCO and faster ROI through simplified deployment and management | |
| Increase efficiency of audit |
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